Picker-check



E. FRIAR. PICKER CHECK. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1. 1921.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

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EDWARD FRIAR, OFl -IOPE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR G3 CHE-HALF TO JOHN P.

' CRAIG, OF HOPE, RHODE ISLAND.

PICKER-GHECK.

Application filed June 7, 1921.

T 0 all w ham it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD FRIAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hope, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picker-Checks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to picker checks for looms and has for its object to provide a simple, practical and efficient check of this character for assisting the picker to yieldably receive the impact from the flying shuttle.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully de scribed, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a portion of a lay with a shuttle mounted thereon, and my improved check in position to yieldably support a picker when receivin the impact of a shuttle.

iig. 2 is an enlarged end view partly in section illustrating my improved device as mounted upon the lay of a loom.

Fig. 3 is a plan view sectioned on line 38 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview showing the outer face of the bracket with the check-arm boss formed thereon.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 55 of Fig. 3, through the cushioned end of the check arm.

With reference to the drawings, 10 designates the usual lay on which the shuttle l1 rides, and 12 the picker stick which receives the impact of the flying shuttle and throws it back across the lay.

In some classes of looms it is found desirable to provide simple and effective means for assisting the picker to receive the ir pact of the flying shuttle and to ease the picker back to its rest-position. To accomplish this in a simple and efiective way I. have provided a bracket member 13 provided with a flange 14, its outer end hav ing holes 15 through which bolts 16 are passed to boltthis bracket to the under side of the lay 10. This bracket is provided with a lateral opening 17 therethrough and above this opening is a laterally-extending boss Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

Serial No. 475,762.

18, while below is another boss 19 spaced from the upper boss. Both of these bosses or lugs are bored as at 20 to receive the tension pivot pin 21.

This tension pivot pin is rotatably mounted in these lugs and is provided at its upper end with a tension spring 22, one end 23 of which engages the lug while the opposite end engages the head 25 of this pin. At the lower end of the pin I have drilled holes 26 at different angles therethrough whereby the pin may be rotated to set up or regulate the tension in the spring 22.

On this pin 1 have fixed a laterally-extending check arm 27 which is secured at one end by a dowel or cot er pin 28 to this pintle 21, while its opposite end extends laterally into the path of movement of the picker stick l2 and is provided with a cushion 29 which comprises essentially a piece of leather such as waste belting which is wound about the same and secured by rivets or otherwise thereto.

When it is desired to set up this spring to obtain more tension it is only necessary to knock out the dowel or cotter pin 28 when the pivot pintle may be rotated after which the dowel may be again inserted and the device is in operative condition.

It will. be noted that my improved device is extremely simple and practical in construction and efiective in its operation and that the same may be readily positioned to the under side of a lay to position its check arm in the path of the picker to assist the same to receive the impact of a shuttle.

The foregoing description is directed solely toward the construction illustrated, but I desire it to be understood that I reserve the privilege of resorting to all the mechanical changes to which the device is susceptible, the invention being defined and limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A picker check for looms comprising a bracket adapted to be bolted in position, a horizontally-disposed spring-pressed check arm extending into the path of the picker, a pivot pin rotatably mounted in said bracket to which pin said check arm is fixed, said pivotal pin having a bearing both above and below said arm, and a spring acting on said pin whereby the resistance thereof is ing through it between said bosses, and a transmitted through said pin to said arm. check arm extending through said opening 10 2. In a 100m the combination with apicker and secured to said pin between said bosses and lay adapted to be bolted in position, a whereby the resistance of said spring is 5 pair of laterally extending spaced-apart transmitted through said pin to said arm. bosses on said bracket, a spring pressed pin In testimony whereof I affix my signarotatably mounted in said bosses, said ture. bracket being provided with a lateral open- EDWARD FRIAR. 

